Surprise Easter Cupcakes

Aunt Paula's Note:

The surprise is a chocolate egg baked inside the cupcake! Yum! These cupcakes are so pretty, especially when you ice them with pastel colors for Easter or Spring. I got this from an old Woman's World magazine.

• Total Time: 32 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 22 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 24

• 1 (18 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 3 eggs
• 1⁄3; cup oil , for the cake mix
• 24 paper baking cups
• 24 vanilla wafers
• 24 small solid chocolate eggs , unwrapped
• 2 (16 ounce) cans vanilla frosting (or your own)
• food coloring
• sugar crystals or candy sprinkles

Directions:

1. Preheat oven according to cake mix package.
2. Line cupcake pans with cupcake liners.
3. Place 1 vanilla wafer in bottom of each.
4. Prepare cake mix according to box.
5. Fill cups halfway with batter.
6. Place chocolate egg in center of each cup.
7. Top with remaining batter.
8. Bake 18 to 22 minutes or until golden.
9. Cool, completely.
10. Tint frosting with food coloring as desired.
11. Frost cupcakes and decorate with sugar or sprinkles.

Reviews

[Chef Kelly Bug]

These were so fun to make with my 7 year old! He did all of it himself and I iced them. I thought these were really good...just didn't care for the wafer texture at the bottom, but I ate around it easy enough...I will keep this recipe and make again for sure. UPDATE**** 1 week later and I am still eating on this cupcakes...still delicious, vanilla wafer softened up and can't tell a difference from the cake at this point. LOVE THEM!

[bmcnichol]

I made these for Easter and thought they would go over better then they did. Only four of them got eaten. I did use white cake and didn't add the wafer. I made pink, green and yellow icing and they looked great. I ate one after we got home and I thought they were OK.

[Deantini]

Very cool idea and a hit with kids! I found the cup cakes to be dry (I dont usually bake using mix) so perhaps next time I will make the cup cakes from scratch instead of a mix. I wasn't sure which vanilla wafers to use (I am located in Canada and couldn't find these cookies). Instead I used crumbled up vanilla wafer sticks which worked well. The chocolate did not spill.